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Perhaps it’s gone out I can remember a Leytonstone accent, and a Barnet one. But that’s accents not a dialect.
by zeristor 2y ago
Perhaps it’s gone out I can remember a Leytonstone accent, and a Barnet one. But that’s accents not a dialect.
- kreyenborgi 2y agoThose are dialects. An accent is what you have as a second language speaker. (Of course reality is more complicated; creoles and pidgins etc )
- KaiserPro 2y agothats the thing, norfolk dialect had about four main strains, but most of the dialect as disappeared, leaving only the accent
- dmurray 2y agoIs that true? I think a dialect needs to have at least some of its own words. If people in your town use the same words as the town across the river, but you pronounce your R's and the others do not, I would say you speak the same dialect but with distinct accents. Maybe the point is moot because any two populations separate enough to develop distinct ways of pronouncing words inevitably also create words of their own.